‘A State On Wheels’: The Hidden Global That Made The Circus Take Place : The 2-Manner : Npr

‘A Kingdom On Wheels’: The Hidden World That Made The Circus HappenEnlarge this image toggle caption Claire Harbage/NPR Claire Harbage/NPROn the steps above the makeshift stables, the circus priest is getting nostalgic.
Enlarge this image toggle caption Claire Harbage/NPR Claire Harbage/NPR”I was so scared of horses,” she said.
Enlarge this image toggle caption Claire Harbage/NPR Claire Harbage/NPR”We’ll see,” Tchalabaeva says, asked about her dozens of horses and her Cossack Riders and grooms.
Enlarge this image toggle caption Claire Harbage/NPR Claire Harbage/NPRLorelei Owens, the head of pyro, was once a fire-eater, glass walker and silk aerialist.
toggle caption Claire Harbage/NPRCoates says his mother was a singer and his stepfather worked on the Atlantic Coastline railway.